noun
Meaning 1
The quality of being intense.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
intensity
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noun
Meaning 2
The degree of strength.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Time-averaged energy flux (the ratio of average power to the area through which the power "flows"); irradiance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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noun
Meaning 4
Any of radiant intensity, luminous intensity or irradiance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, optics, physical-sciences, physics
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noun
Meaning 5
Synonym of radiance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: radiance
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
The severity of an earthquake in terms of its effects on the earth's surface, and buildings. The value depends on the distance from the epicentre, and is not to be confused with the magnitude.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 7
chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: saturation, chroma, vividness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: color property
noun
Meaning 8
the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the kids played their music at full volume
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: volume, loudness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sound property
Narrower terms: crescendo, forte, fortissimo
noun
Meaning 9
high level or degree; the property of being intense
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: intensiveness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: degree, grade, level
Narrower terms: force, forcefulness, strength, badness, severity, severeness, vehemence, emphasis, top, ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, violence, wildness
noun
Meaning 10
the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he adjusted the intensity of the sound
- they measured the station's signal strength
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: strength, intensity level
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: magnitude
Narrower terms: radio brightness, threshold level, field strength, field intensity, candlepower, light intensity, acoustic power, sound pressure level, half-intensity
History
Etymology
From intense + -ity. Cf. also Medieval Latin intensitas.
Across languages
Translations
39 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: شِدَّة (šidda) — quality of being intense
- Asturian: intensidá — quality of being intense
- Bulgarian: интензивност (intenzivnost) — quality of being intense
- Bulgarian: напрегнатост (napregnatost) — quality of being intense
- Catalan: intensitat — quality of being intense
- Chinese Mandarin: 強度 /强度 (qiángdù) — quality of being intense
- Chinese Mandarin: 強烈 /强烈 (qiángliè) — quality of being intense
- Chinese Mandarin: 烈度 (lièdù) — quality of being intense
- Czech: intenzita — quality of being intense
- Finnish: intensiivisyys — quality of being intense
- Finnish: ankaruus — quality of being intense
- French: intensité — quality of being intense
- Galician: intensidade — quality of being intense
- Georgian: ინტენსივობა (inṭensivoba) — quality of being intense
- German: Intensität — quality of being intense
- Ancient Greek: συντονία (suntonía) — quality of being intense
- Hebrew: עוצמה — quality of being intense
- Hungarian: intenzitás — quality of being intense
- Indonesian: intensitas — quality of being intense
- Indonesian: sifat intens — quality of being intense
- Interlingua: intensitate — quality of being intense
- Italian: intensità — quality of being intense
- Japanese: 強度 (kyōdo) — quality of being intense
- Kazakh: қарқындылық (qarqyndylyq) — quality of being intense
- Korean: 강도 (gangdo) — quality of being intense
- Malay: keamatan — quality of being intense
- Malay: intensiti — quality of being intense
- Māori: kōiwi — quality of being intense
- Portuguese: intensidade — quality of being intense
- Romanian: intensitate — quality of being intense
- Russian: интенси́вность (intɛnsívnostʹ) — quality of being intense
- Spanish: intensidad — quality of being intense
- Spanish: intensión — quality of being intense
- Swedish: intensitet — quality of being intense
- Tagalog: intensidad — quality of being intense
- Tagalog: tindi — quality of being intense
- Telugu: తీవ్రత (tīvrata) — quality of being intense
- Turkish: yoğunluk — quality of being intense
- Māori: kahapā — geology: the severity of an earthquake in terms of its effects on the earth's surface, and buildings
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